Word: mater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classmates savored double-thick steaks-one of them specially salted, peppered, garlic-salted, cooked eleven minutes on one side and eight minutes on the other in a charcoal pit-followed by Sicilian pastry, cream-filled and dripping with lime ice. Teary-eyed, the old soldiers chorused their Alma Mater and venerated favorites like The Corps: The Corps! Bareheaded salute it, With eyes up, thanking...
...reading it. Sometime later the story of her life appeared in the "Ladies Home Journal" and the wife on an American professor kindly lent it to me. I was so interested that I spoke about this most remarkable personality before the Greek Y.M.C.A. of Robert College, my Alma Mater...
Rossini: Stabat Mater (Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Ernst Häfliger, Kim Borg; RIAS Symphony conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 2 LPs). The composer who was once advised by Beethoven to stick to comic opera, here turns up in a churchly (if not always churchlike) mood. The chorus sings some lofty and properly devotional counter point, but the lovely solo voices have arias that bounce and flow with the joyfulness of the Barber of Seville. Performance: elegant...
...Deborah Marie and Christine Mary Andrews, 8 months, Chicago twins who were born joined at the head but can now face each other, did so happily for photographers. Both have a normal brain covering (dura mater) except for one small patch, which Christine will soon get; neither has a bony top to her skull, but they will get these at the age of four from their own ribs or hipbones...
...public their answer to ship's discipline. In a special poll of the 1,700 undergraduates, more than half of the 1,165 answering indicated they would like to transfer to another college; 77% said that as future alumni they would refuse to contribute money to their alma mater; 72% would not recommend the college to prospective students...